Thursday, 25 June 2015

Remove Surfcanyon.com Redirect

Surfcanyon.com arrives to your computer and will change the homepage and the default search engine from your browsers without permission. This article is a guide step by step that will allow us to eliminate this browser hijacker.

Surfcanyon.com can finish installed in your computer because of free software download where the installer includes optional installs questionable. Various websites such as Softonic or Brothersoft promote this kind of programs in their downloads. If you have downloaded a program from these websites or similars, can finish with Surfcanyon.com in your browser. You must be attentive to the installation of this kind of software because if you don't review every installation steps you can install software or a potentially unwanted program PUP on your computer. The users of P2P programs where you share files, when receive emails from unknown sender, spam emails with malicios files or links, must be vigilant of this kind of things.

Once installed it will change the browser settings, the homepage and the default search engine by Surfcanyon.com. In this moment begins to spy your internet movements and your history of navigation for show links and ads promoted by the authors. This links and ads may be modified to attract your attention and you click it, so their authors earn money. Can be redirected to malicious websites where you can be infected with other malware. It can steal all kinds of private data as our online banking credentials.

If your detect Surfcanyon.com in your browser, it's a sign that you are infected with a virus or malware. The manual uninstall of this browser hijacker don't clean or delete other malware you have in your computer. From Solucionavirus.com it's recommended to perform a full system scan and remove all detected threats.

How to remove Surfcanyon.com?

Note: All software used to remove the Surfcanyon.com browser hijacker it's totaly free. These steps are tested and should remove this threat in major browsers. For successfully remove Surfcanyon.com you must follow all the steps in the order shown.

Very important: If during the process of removing the threat you have any problems, please you must stop.

Junkware Removal Tool is a security utility that searches for and removes common adware, toolbars, and potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) from your computer. A common tactics among freeware publishers is to offer their products for free, but bundle them with PUPs in order to earn revenue. This tool will help you remove these types of programs from your computer.

You can download Junkware from the section AntiSpyware, and save it to your desktop.

Execute it in administrator mode and click Run for continue.

Then you must click any key for continue and the analysis starts.

Then Junkware will start to analyze your computer to find infection. After you must restart your computer and write Y for to do it.

One of the best free tools for malware detection that allows us to be protected from possible infection from viruses, worms, trojans, rootkits, dialers, spyware and malware.

You can download Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Free from the Anti-Malwarepage.

Double click on the installer downloaded and then click Run. Select language and click Ok. Malwarebytes click Next. The installation start and you will see the Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Setup Wizard screen and click Next.

Install the program and follow each of the steps without changing any default settings. When installation is complete click Enable free trial of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Premium and click Launch Malwarebytes Antimalware and then click Finish to exit Setup.

When the program starts will perform a check of the database and update it if it's outdated.

When update is finished click to the button Scan Now for begin to scan your system to detect threats.

Other method to scan threats is click to option Scan and then select the option Threat Scan, finally click the button Start Scan.

Malwarebytes begin to scan the computer and and you must wait for it to finish.

When the scan is complete will see the results. For delete the threats click the button Remove Selected.

Double-click on the file named ccsetupXXX.exe for to proceed to installation. First, select the language, then select the options by default and install the program. Finally select the option to run CCleaner and will press Finish.

When Ccleaner is running click at the Cleaner option and then click to the Analyze button. Don't change any option, use the options by default.

After the scan you can see the results. Then click the button Run Cleaner for to clean your computer.

After that scan, click Registry option and then click Scan for Issues button. Don't change any option, use the options by default.

When the scan is finished click to the Fix selected Issues.. button and make a BackUp of the registry. Finally click Fix All Selected Issues button.

Repeat the operation and click the Scan for Issues button and then Fix selected Issues button to don't find more issues.

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